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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: J HIV AIDS Soc Serv. 2014 Jun 1;28(2):625–630.

Table 2.

Reasons for and barriers to testing among those who have never been tested for HIV (n=197)

n (%)
I don’t think I could be HIV positive because I don’t feel like I am at risk. 109 (55.3%)
I have never been offered an HIV test. 90 (45.7%)
I don’t think I could be HIV positive because I don’t feel sick. 34 (17.3%)
I don’t know where to get tested 20 (10.2%)
I would be too upset about a positive test. 14 (7.1%)
I don’t want the test 9 (4.6%)
Other things are more important than getting an HIV test. 5 (2.5%)
I don’t want anybody to know if I have HIV. 4 (2.0%)

Note. Proportions sum to more than 100% because participants could check all responses that they felt applied to them.